THE KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1909
TRAVEL IN AIRSHIPS.
Already as Cheap as Autos, Says Major Russell.
The Kansas-Missouri game may be viewed from flying machines, within the next five years, if the airship is improved as rapidly as Major Edgar Russell of the Army Signal corps, who has charge of Uncle Sam's war balloons, thinks it will be. In his illustrated lecture given before the Civil Engineering society, at Blake hall, Thursday night, Major Russell discussed the problems and triumphs of both the dirigible balloon and the aeroplane.
The dirigible balloon, Major Russell compared to the great steamships. The same principle which makes the largest ships steadiest and safest on the ocean, makes the great dirigibles best to endure the eddies and swirls of the atmosphere. The aeroplane is the distinctly American achievement, but the Wrights have already been imitated by the French and other European inventors so that this class of "flyers" already has a host of supporters. The Wright machine is still superior as an all round machine, but it has been excelled by a few others on some special feature.
The cost places the dirigible beyond the reach of ordinary people, but the aeroplane is but little more expensive than the automobile. The Wrights offer their make for from three to five thousand dollars, while the Frenchman, Dumont, offers his type for fifteen hundred dollars.
NEW DIRECTORY SOON.
Graduate Magazine Is Printing Student Lists This Year.
The University is to have a reliable students' directory at last. This fact was made known today when E. E. Brown, purchasing agent of the University, stated that the Graduate Magazine would publish soon, the official directory.
The registrar had refused to permit any students here to make up the directory, owing to dissatisfactions arising in former years. The new directory will be compiled from the official enrollment lists and will be accurate in every detail. No advertising will appear in it. It will be ready for distribution about the middle of December.
To Go to Rochester.
Charles W. Whitehair of Topeka, state secretary for the Y. M. C. A. work in the colleges, was in the Saturday to make arrangements for the University delegation to the Student Volunteer convention at Rochester, N. Y., the last week in December. The University Y. M. C. A. will be represented by Secretary Harry Herman and seven student delegates, and the Y. W. C. A. will send five representatives. Mr. Whitehair met with a number of these delegates Saturday and with Student Volunteers and members of the respective cabinets to tell them of the Rochester program and of the arrangements whereby Kansas delegates would make the trip together from Kansas City.
WANTS NEW BUILDING.
Dr. Hyde Says Medical Building Is Inadequate.
The Medical building is in a bad condition at present. The north wall is falling away and the whole structure is in a dilapidated condition.
In speaking to a Kansan reporter yesterday Dr. Hyde of the physiology department, said: "The time has come when it is absolutely necessary for Kansas University to have an up-to-date Medical building. Most of the universities that have a medical department possess a building that accommodates the departments related to medical students. Such a hall is a factor in enhancing cooperation between the related department, in reducing expenses, and strengthening the influence of the medical department as no other single project could possibly do.
"The old Medical hall is in a dilapidated condition. The roof, ceiling and north wall are threatening to cave in, and it is entirely too small for the accommodation of the over-crowded classes of the departments in it."
LIQUID AIR SHIPPED
University Supplies All Missouri Valley.
The first shipment of liquid air this year was made to Rosebud, Tex., where it will be used for demonstration purposes. Prof. Cady has for this year, placed the machine in the hands of Kaffer and Ledenicky, two advanced students, who will incidentally fulfill the contracts the University has with demonstrators and other colleges. Liquid air, although becoming better known in the scientific world, is still scarce. Kansas is the only school west of Wisconsin and Illinois that has one of these machines for its manufacture, and with it she supplies the whole Mississippi valley.
The University of California holds "bleacher rallies" for the student body every day before a big game comes off.
Professor Dyche May Not Be Fish Warden.
Prof. L. L. Dyche will not accept the appointment as fish and game warden for the state unless the attending to the duties of the office can be done without taking him away from the University. He has just returned from reporting to Governor Stubbs, after his trip to Pratt, where he investigated the state fisheries plant. Professor Dyche is very enthusiastic about the possibilities of the hatchery, but has much work yet to do to complete the exhibits in the Museum and does not wish to give up the University work until it is finished to his satisfaction.
Governor Stubbs wishes to have the fish and game industry of the state taken out of politics and made a department of the University. He is anxious for a temporary arrangement whereby Professor Dyche can take care of the work until the legislature can take action.
Thirty men have reported for fencing at the University of Chicago.
EXCHANGE NEWS.
Carlisle has decided to discontinue baseball this year because so many of the players left college.
The Curtain club of Texas has recently presented a five-act farce comedy entitled "Beelzebubbles."
Brown University is building a new library to be named after their most famous alumnus, John Hay.
Annapolis has formally challenged West Point to a meeting in rifle shooting, fencing, basketball and gymnastics.
The Harvard Lampoon is constructing a building which will be devoted entirely to its own interests.
The senior class at the University of Pennsylvania is heavily in debt. Efforts to make up this deficit seem a hopeless task.
A system of student government with a cadet at the head as president has been started at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
The most remarkable instance of graft on record is that of the Harvard man who was arrested for selling fraudulent copies of examination papers in the dormitories.
The new editor-in-chief of the Tech, the undergraduate daily at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is David Saint Pierre Gaillard, of Culebra, Canal Zone, Panama.
The George Washington University has accepted a challenge for a debate with Leland Stanford at Los Angeles. All expenses of the trip will be borne by Stanford.
In order to better student policies in the University of Chicago a meeting of representatives of all the fraternities of that university has been called, at which the matter will be taken up and discussed.
Andrew S. Draper, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, and former president of Illinois, will this week deliver a lecture before Iowa students on "The Church Influence on Education."
Football men at the University of Oregon must be at home by 9 and in bed by 10, according to the recent order of the coach at that institution.
Freshmen women at the University of Toronto are called "Freshettes."
A Graduate Gets Appointment. Raymond E. Merwin, '03, who is now Hemenway fellow in paleontology at Harvard, has been appointed by Dr. A. M. Tozzar to accompany an expedition sent out by the American institute of archeology and ethnology of Harvard to make a study in British Honduras and other Central American countries. The expedition will be gone for about a year.
Material for Debaters.
Those desiring material for working up the question of Postal Savings Banks, which is to be debated with Colorado this year, will find a list of references and a number of books on the main floor of the library in the alcove reserved for public speaking.
Union Pacific to Kansas City
For the Kansas-Missouri Football Game Thanksgiving Day.
The Union Pacific offers convenient train service for wishing to attend the Game. Fast Double Track Electric Block Signals Extra Cars on all Trains November 24th and 25th.
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS AS FOLLOWS:
7:05 a. m.
7:35 a. m.
9:06 a. m.
3:03 p. m.
6:10 p. m.
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8:05 a. m.
8:35 a. m.
10:25 a. m.
4:10 p. m.
7:30 p. m.
10:05 a. m.
4:10 p. m.
6:00 p. m.
10:25 p.
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Trains marked * daily except Sunday, all other trains daily.
9:25 a. m.
11:08 a. m.
5:23 p. m.
6:56 p. m.
11:25 p. m.
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